Please draw this to the attention of your colleagues.

                                39th Annual Essex Summer School
                                                in
                                       Social Science Data Analysis
                                                and
                                               Collection

                                        8 July - 18 August 2006

This year's Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and
Collection will offer over 60 one and two-week introductory,
intermediate and advanced courses on topics which include:

social survey design and analysis, sampling, regression, Q Methodology,
multilevel analysis, time series analysis, latent class analysis,
survival analysis, discourse analysis, game theory, experimental design,
panel analysis, social theory, social network analysis, structural
equation models, Bayesian methods, ecological analysis, logit, probit
and other generalized models, maximum likelihood estimation and limited
dependent variables, scaling, qualitative data analysis, focus groups,
interviewing, participant observation, content analysis, SPSS, Amos,
Stata, British Household Panel Survey, National Child Development Study
& British Cohort Study, comparative policy analysis and time budget
collection and analysis.

New courses this year include:

*       Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models
*       Clustering, Classification and Sorting
*       Introduction to Programming in R
*       Discourse Theory and Popular Identities
*       Developments in Multidimensional Scaling
*       Multi-Country Tax-Benefit Micro simulation using EUROMOD
*       Comparative Political Economy: Concepts, Measures and Databases
*       Statistical Graphics for Visualizing Data
*       Cross-Cultural Research Methods



A small number of
*       ESRC bursaries are available to participants from British
academic institutions
*       INTAS bursaries are available to participants from academic
institutions located in the former Soviet Union.


For further details see: www.essex.ac.uk/methods
or e-mail: [log in to unmask]
or write to: The Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and
Collection, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4
3SQ, United Kingdom
or Fax: [international] 44-1206-873598 [UK/Eire] 01206-873598
or telephone: [international] 44-1206-872502 [UK/Eire] 01206-872502

Eric Tanenbaum
Director
Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection
c/o Department of Government
University of Essex
Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom
tel: [UK] 01206-872506
     [Int'l] 44-1206-872506
fax: [UK] 01206-873234
     [Int'l] 44-1206-873234

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